Journal of Algorithms and Computation covers the very broad areas of algorithms and computing in general. The scope of this Journal includes both theoretical and applied research from these fields. The main aim of the Journal is to promote the exchange of ideas in this active research Community. The specific themes targeted for Journal of Algorithms and Computation are Computational Geometry, Algorithms and Data Structures, Approximation Algorithms, Randomized Algorithms, Graph Drawing and Graph Algorithms, Combinatorial Algorithms, Graphs in Bioinformatics, String Algorithms, Combinatorial Optimization, Computational Biology, Computational Finance, Cryptography, and Parallel and distributed algorithms.